While you’re laughing it up, you’re headed for a healthy dosage of brain washing:

It comes in the dark, when you least expect it. Think you’re immune from attack? Think again — you won’t even put up a fight. Instead, you’ll stare and scream, laugh and cry, and ask the person next to you to pass the popcorn.

You’re at the movies, being entertained, and — as Dr. Roderick Hart, professor of communication at the University of Texas, Austin would tell you — you are in danger. People are most easily persuaded when they are having a good time. Face off with an opponent in a debate and you would be wary, looking for ideological attacks and crafting defenses. However, put you in a theater with the lights down low, fill your field of vision with eye-popping images, surround you with sound, and your critical thinking capacity has all the integrity of Jello on a summer sidewalk in Phoenix.

And while you’re busy not thinking, someone else is introducing political, economic, social, moral, and theological ideas. Sometimes they are blatant, such as George Clooney’s Syriana rant or Michael Moore’s — well, take your pick. Other times the messages are subtle, woven into the fabric of the narrative to create a seamless story that moves you, or perhaps disturbs you a bit, though you can’t quite put your finger on why…. (movieministry)

Saveamerica.net has an important announcement:

ALERT!: Stop SB 1437 & AB 606. These bills would make every California school a trans-bi-homosexual school.

SB 1437 expressly prohibits textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities from “reflecting adversely” on transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. Instructional materials could not only say “a husband and wife,” but must include “two wives who are married lesbians.” Sex education assemblies would have to include information on sex changes (to avoid “reflecting adversely”).

AB 606 would give inappropriate power to the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to unilaterally withhold state funds from school districts that don’t promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality according to his arbitrary “standards.” Because two-thirds of a school district’s funds come from the state, AB 606 would obstruct the learning of millions of California schoolchildren.

AB 1056 presents itself as a temporary pilot program that only reaches 10 schools, yet it is actually the first step in forcing all schoolchildren in all California public schools to “tolerate” – that is, under the state’s definition of tolerance, to embrace and support – transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, and even consider these sexual lifestyles for themselves.

TAKE ACTION! Email Arnold: Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to veto AB 606 and SB 1437. Use CCF's Email Lobbying system and suggested message. Send your email message now.

Joseph and Robin Wirthlin of Massachusetts have filed a Federal lawsuit against Lexington school officials for refusing to notify them of a teacher's reading to their second grade son of a story about two princes falling in love. (edgeboston.com)

Soviet brainwashing expert Leoned Jughashvili said the second grade was an appropriate grade level to "mold young minds into accepting sodomite, lesbian, pedophile, and other odd sexual practices."

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao agreed, adding, "OK, you tie little kid down to Big Wheel toy, play Brokeback Mountain, The Rosy O'Donnell Show reruns, and Fisting: How To DVD on overhead LCD TV for 72 hour straight."

Premier Jiabao then elevated his voice and screeched, "Now we take away LCD TV! Kid go crazy! Kid goes all the time to San Francisco Bath House. Ha! Ha! This how we destroy America: No more baby making!"

North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) quietly reiterated their slogan, "Sex by eight or else it's too late." NAMBLA spokesperson Bernard Law mentioned that "plying the younger psyche with alcohol, drugs, and video games helps too."

Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Rapunzel of the classical fairy tale stories have filed unemployment claims with the Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development. 

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney spoke hopefully and enterprisingly for the unemployed ladies:

These ladies are just in luck, we're working diligently on legalizing prostitution after a rousing success legalizing homosexual marriages. There should be a few night job openings soon which ladies of their caliber should have no trouble getting accepted at.

Television station behemoth ABC in a press release yesterday announced a minor change in the script for the popular show Desperate Housewives' upcoming season. Actress Terri Hatcher will be required to wear a large billboard reading, "Support Marriage as a Man and Woman Respectfully Together" as a prop to promote their cable television affiliate, the ABC Family station.

After the announcement, Hatcher's perverse enabling friends gathered around her for a promotional picture (see above).

"I've had so much fun on this show tempting men and women sexually and making a mockery of good values. Gosh, it's so rewarding to help people fail at being respectable and decent," Hatcher admitted, "but I'm just another amoral actor who has to pay the utility bills (giggling)."

She went on to reflect, "I don't mind promoting the Family Channel. I've been divorced before and my current husband has too, but we're a family now."

Not all responses were positive. OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) expressed concern about the heavy weight of the billboard, estimated at 16 pounds, and requested mandatory water breaks for Mrs. Hatcher every 20 minutes to better cope with the increased stress around her neck.

The NAACP complained that the white space on the billboard exceeds the area devoted to blackness.

From far up on some aluminum press corp bleachers, a man known as Outraged Richard shouted out, "Right! Show that promo picture to your lewd and debaucherous friends!"

Anne Coulter tells, as usual, the rest of the story:

However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.

Also, you can severely reduce your chances of being raped if you do not go to strange men’s houses and take your clothes off for money. (Does anyone else detect a common thread here?)

And if you are a girl in Aruba or New York City, among the best ways to avoid being the victim of a horrible crime is to not get drunk in public or go off in a car with men you just met. While we’re on the subject of things every 5-year-old should know, I also recommend against dousing yourself in gasoline and striking a match….” (Anne Coulter)

People have the capacity to use reason, to make sense, to be understanding, yet many choose not to.

Splendid examples of this are found in the bug-eyed look where the glistening eyes enlarge showing their whites and shrink according to the excitement value of the stimulus; the glassy eyed, drop jawed, dribble of saliva expression; and the change of subject, reasoning through bias, and irritated disposition way of interacting with others are to be expected nowadays as intelligent methods of discourse.

Its counterpart is reasonable thinking, defined as internally motivated and undistracted thinking.

A bug-eyed person would show up at a Trial of Neurenburg hanging execution and think it was the most horrible violation of human rights, not because she understands the causes but because we shouldn’t hurt the condemned’s feelings.

Bug-eyed people operate according to the reaction of their feelings based on external stimuli that is happening right now in front of them. Only their immediate feelings are real for them. What is happening in the world around them and with other people is ultimately irrelevant.

Reasonable thinking involves the thinking behind why things are the way they are, whereby reasonable connections are made in discovering this why, and the situation is understood as it is in itself.

A reasonable person may feel saddened by the hanging of those who chose evil, but he understands the reasoning behind why they are meeting their demise and understands the principles of justice they are being held accountable to. A reasonable person regards another person as relevant, meaningfully related to other people, and accountable.

Unfortunately, no bug-eyed person will be able to understand any of this. Paramount for them will be a feeling of malcontent that seems to justify an additional feeling that the pronouncements here are wrong, even though they must first be able to understand what they may be in disagreement towards, for a proper disagreement.

Only through the use of tools of reason, such as being undistracted and making sensible connections are people able to be understanding—tools which the bug-eyed person is wholly without.

Cries for recognition ring out as Mexican marchers clamor for their illegal entry into the U.S. to be legalized. Politicians are scrambling to appease the “brown skinned folks adept at pottery making, spraying weed killer, installing drywall, and paintwork,” as one high ranking dissenting politician was quoted.

Senator Ted Kennedy announced that once this new underclass of legalized illegal Mexicans is established, the U.S. labor market will benefit from their willingness to take jobs that “even the blacks won’t take,” quoting from President Vicente Fox of Mexico.

The looming threat of overgrown weeds, accumulated leaves, and unfinished houses grows near as the Mexican group La Rassa is threatening a nationwide worker strike unless all illegal Mexicans are legalized.

With no available labor pools to fill the void for meaningless work that only Mexicans will do, state governors are declaring states of emergency and summoning up the National Guard to be on the ready to complete the unfinished work.

Well heeled Americans are alarmed at the prospect of handling a weed whacker and a paintbrush themselves, but comforted knowing the National Guard will do the grueling work if necessary.

Homeowner Mrs. Pumphries with little Chihuahua Mr. Snoodles snuggled down in a Prada handbag exclaimed tearfully, “but they seemed like such a friendly and simple people, why would they do this to us?”